skwalla

Hmm Explains why some might not have wlanconfig Apparently the wlanconfig is only apart of the new Madwifi-ng drivers and considering the way mine were built and the fact that I did not download the Madwifi-ng drivers its highly doubtful that I have a chance at the wlanconfig util unless I use the Madwifi-ng drivers. Well at least it's an answer. Now to figure out the way they want me to install the ng drivers.

Yes I used the package builder, which downloads the madwifi-source then is supposed to build the 2 files. Only built one even though the source.tar.gz has the tools folder inside. But I have been able to make, then make install the tools from their respective folder. Which gave me the working 80211stats, athstats, athkey, athctrl, and athchans commands, but no wlanconfig? Am I missing something? So I continued to mess around with the madwifi-source and did a make, make install from the whole directory which copied over the working madwifi drivers with ones that left me with the ERROR- invalid file format for each time the drivers tried to load using modprobe. I understand why the 2nd overlap drivers didn't work. Anyways I'm going through this trouble to try and configure WPA-PSK or WEP encryption. Currently I can set a key for WEP via iwconfig ath0 key "s:passphrase" without the wlanconfig, but I don't know what bit level it is example-128bit -152bit? anyone know how to look this up or set it?

I'm in the same boat as these guys. Installed madwifi onto debian sarge amd64 using the http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/madwifi instructions here. I know for a fact I only installed the driver package as the tools package was only for i386. Which explains to me(and maybe others) why I don't have the wlanconfig, however I'd like to have the utility. I see the tools in the source .deb package but not in the installed /usr/src/madwifi.tar.gz. from which I extracted then complied the drivers. Basically I believe the split occured(refering to the link) when it says to "fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage" from inside the /madwifi-1.7 dir. It says that 2 .deb files should be generated, but for me only one was, also the -tools package(which wasn't generated) is labeled with i386 in the link. Just wondering if anyone knows a ways to compile the tools from the source package?